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Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857
Volume 834, Page 244   View pdf image
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State of Maryland Caroline County to wit  Whereas application
hath been made to me by a negro man named
Stanley Saulsbury for a certificate of his freedom agreeably
to the acts of Assembly in such case made and
provided by which said acts free negroes and mulattoes
are permitted to travel out of this state upon the
obtention of a certificate of being free born
And whereas also upon the oath of Benjamin Kirby
of Talbot County that the said negro man named
Stanley Saulsbury for whom this Certificate is made
was free born I do therefore grant his said application
and hereby certify that from his own account he is now
about twenty two years of age five feet ten & three
quarter inches high or thereabouts of a Black Complexion
was born in Caroline County ^aforesaid^ & raised in Talbott
County aforesaid & has both little fingers crooked
at the second joint as if broke and has no other notable
marks or scars that I have observed
                      In Testimony whereof I hereunto
    (seal)          subscribe my name and affix the
                      seal of Caroline County Court this
                      31st day of October A D 1848
                                                 James H Fountain Clk
                                                 of Caroline County Court


State of Maryland Caroline County to wit   whereas
application hath been made to me by a negro man
named Isaac Mason for a certificate of his freedom agreeably
to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided
by which said acts free negroes and mulattoes are permitted
to travel out of this state upon the obtention of a certificate
of being free born.  And whereas also upon the oath of
James Nicols of Caroline County aforesaid that the
said negro man named Isaac Mason for whom this Certificate
is made was free born; I do therefore grant his said


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